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We share our technology and resources with communities worldwide to help eliminate the digital divide, create economic opportunity, and foster equal access to technology.
The Sun Microsystems Foundation, established in 1990, has been the primary vehicle for our global citizenship efforts, contributing technology and services to a range of organizations that work to create access and opportunity around the world.
In addition, the Foundation supports the thousands of Sun employees around the world who give their time and money to causes they care about, including eliminating the digital divide. Our Foundation supports employee giving through our Matching Gift Program.
In fiscal 2007, Sun dissolved the 501(c)3 independent legal status of the Sun Foundation to reduce administration costs. We placed the assets of what was the Foundation into a charitable giving fund that enables our company to continue giving within guidelines consistent with traditional foundation rules — and with the cost savings achieved, we expect we'll be able to devote greater resources to our philanthropy.
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The Digital Divide — We believe network connectivity has inherent value — enabling a student to access educational resources or a social network; a patient to access a physician, even thousands of miles away; a bank to connect with millions of customers across the globe; or an automobile to communicate via sensors with its manufacturer. But there is a widening gap for businesses and society — a digital divide — that separates those with access to technology and the know-how to use it, and those without.
Sun develops the technologies and communities that together will help eradicate that digital divide — for developing economies, companies, organizations, and individuals.
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